Behind the scenes photo taken by Philippe Renette while Liège artist Nico Hyer is working with spray paint making the street art mural ‘Simon’ in the garden of the S2J School Center in Liège, Belgium, Oct 2024.
Behind the scenes photo taken by Philippe Renette while Liège artist Nico Hyer is working with spray paint making the street art mural ‘Simon’ in the garden of the S2J School Center in Liège, Belgium, Oct 2024.
Still from the film Street Art Simon (1). Detail from the first scene of the street art mural created by the Liège artist HYER , depicting the story of Simon Gronowski in the Garden of Remembrance of the S2J School Center in Liège, Belgium.
This scene shows the moment that Simon jumps, solo, when pushed to freedom by his mother, Chana Kaplan, who is standing in the opening of the sliding door of the freight car of Transport XX — the 20th deportation train heading to Auschwitz on the night of the 19th April 1943 at Cuttecoven (Kuttekoven) in Belgium, some 50 km (30 miles) before the border with Germany .
Westerbork Girls – From left to right: Catharina Frank, Hannelore Cahn, Beatrice Lissauer, Ulla Gross, Lotte Heider-Lehmann and Ruth Pagener. (Source : Westerbork Memorial)
The documentary ‘Westerbork Girl’ (2007), directed by Steffie van den Oord, tells the story of Hannelore Cahn (later Eisinger-Cahn), a Jewish woman imprisoned in Camp Westerbork for more than two years during World War II. She performed as a dancer in the camp revue, attracting the attention of many, including camp commander Gemmeker and Jewish camp policeman Hans Eisinger, member of the Jewish Order Service—also known as “the Jewish SS”.
Westerbork Girl (VPRO 2007)
Hannelore had earlier met actor and resistance fighter Rob de Vries, with whom she was close. Rob smuggled her out of Westerbork by disguising himself as a train stoker and taking her to Amsterdam, where she briefly went into hiding. Hans Eisinger manages to track her down and one week after her escape Hannelore voluntarily accompanies him back to the camp…possibly due to loneliness, Rob’s existing relationship, or pressure from the Order Service to prevent others being deported to Auschwitz. Shortly thereafter, Hannelore and Hans get married in Westerbork.
Hannelore survived the war and avoided punishment after her return. The film reconstructs her story through interviews, archival footage, and music, presenting it as one of survival, love, and the difficult choices faced under Nazi persecution.
Hannelore sings and is still intensely sung about by Louis de Wijze, who witnessed her escape and remembered the revue songs from Westerbork: Ich hab es bei Nacht den Sternen erzählt, Ich liebe Dich.
Powerful documentary—this story, with close-ups of this Westerbork Girl, that resonate with me. Beautiful surprise while researching the use of the Westerborkfilm. Review by Michel van der Burg , editor Settela.Com
Citation info : Westerbork Girl • 20250916 | Michel van der Burg | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 | URL https://settela.com/2025/09/16
Villa Verveine, the home of artist Caroline Dahyot in Ault, is transformed into a total work of art , of canvases, an artistic diary. Street art on the Picardy chalk cliffs, filmed April 2, 2022.
Citation info : Villa Verveine Inside Out • Falaise #182 • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • @1MEMO 20250914 • TakeNode 48eab4a4-cacc-482f-b17a-fe9120a49f41
Still : ESPACE Simon GRONOWSKI (Ed. 20190220) • Miracles Docs #7 • Miracles•Media
Today , I finalized the upgrade of the 2019 news video ESPACE Simon GRONOWSKI (Ed. 20190220). Final corrections with the help of Philippe Renette of the transcription of the soundtrack (French) and the English translation for captions were implemented in the video at YouTube. And the 20190220 posts were updated.
The video was ISAN registered as Miracles Doc #7 .
A new edit of that Miracles Doc #7 is being prepared as the preferred edition for use in the context of a new documentary on the street art mural created by Hyer in that Espace Simon Gronowski at the S2J School Center this year.
Notes
ESPACE Simon GRONOWSKI (Ed. 20190220) • Miracles Docs #7 | Michel van der Burg & Philippe Renette, S2J | Miracles•Media | 20190220 | ISAN 0000-0007-329C-0007-E-0000-0001-U
Citation info : ESPACE Simon GRONOWSKI (Ed. 20190220) • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • @1MEMO 20250904 • TakeNode 5ccc1691-6590-4038-884d-79ab21db372f
Simon Gronowski visiting Liège, Tuesday 19 november 2013 for a series of three testimonies that day at the Saint-Sépulcre school — now the S2J School Center.
Simon is holding the German newspaper Der Welt of Saturday 16th Nov 2013 featuring a portrait of him with Koenraad Tinel by Dieter Telemans in the article ‘Feinde wie wir’ (Enemies like us) by Felix Stephan.
Still of the short film featuring magical moments of that day, entitled Simon Stompin’ at the Saint Sépulcre, at the Miracles site.
Today , I have been working again on that video (produced in 2022), creating a transcription of the soundtrack (French) and an English translation for captions to add in the video.
That video I plan to use , together with the video I worked on yesterday for captions, in the context of a new documentary on the street art mural created by Hyer at the S2J School Center this year.
Simon Gronowski Space • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • @1MEMO 20250831
#surprise #Espace #Simon #Gronowski #school #Liège #S2J #street #holocaust #war #education #miraclesmedia
Citation info : Enemies Like Us • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • @1MEMO 20250901 • TakeNode 2423511f-03f4-4268-afe3-85aa533ec67a
